Sherlock Episode Two Coincidences and Society

I started writing this blog post yesterday, before running out of time as I felt I needed to write more. As I wrote yesterday, I was reminded of my blog post in the opening ten minutes of Sherlock, as ME was written by the daughter of an entrepreneur with plans to kill.

Sherlock Series Coincidences

I started writing about me and men in my blog yesterday (one of only two typos I noticed today was that I wrote ‘can’t imagine men with me’, instead of without; thinking about it personally today, and having always been a bit of an outsider, maybe I did mean with me; but I was talking about the three-letter word at the time in letter wordplay); as an afterthought really, just as I thought I’d finished the blog post, and was eager to wrap it up.

Having noticed a paths coincidence in my New Year’s Day blog post and the New Year’s Day Sherlock episode, the first of a trilogy in series 4, which didn’t seem to be followed in the second episode, I wrote the blog without thinking about the second episode of Sherlock last night, and started watching the second Sherlock without thinking about the blog, until the written ME.

I Am Sherlock: Versus the Power Savile

I’ve always avoided power and responsibility as much as possible. That could be seen as a strength or weakness. Maybe I know that the old belief that power corrupts is true, maybe I don’t want to let people down, as Watson felt Sherlock had after Mary was killed in the first episode, or maybe I’ve always known I’m not stable enough mentally; rather than in horse home locality (adding a bit of much needed wordplay humour).

There are ‘coincidences’ with all the leading characters for me in Sherlock this series, although I like to think Sherlock is the most. Mary was trying to lead a normal life after one of adventure; then Watson was trying to rebuild his life (with a greenYgrey background and room décor!)…

… while forgetting a dead ex (mine didn’t die really, but she did in my mind), and he had a little epiphany about acting the way he thought he should; Holmes’s brother Mycroft was depicted as a celibate reptile, which is a psychopathic personality trait I’ve been learning the last decade or more, not that I want it completely, or for ever.

I think I’ve used the greenYgrey as best I could, acting ethically throughout. However, people don’t seem to care, rewarding Russell Brand instead, after he launched a ‘Revolution’, and carried on acting like a stereotypical superior star, keeping women looking silly and stupid at a time when there was a grooming epidemic going on. His musical mirror, Cowell, was releasing music telling girls to get a bad guy!

I didn’t enjoy the second episode of Sherlock that much, as I thought it relied too much on the Savile case, basically retelling that story in a similar context; compared to the dynamic originality of my fantasy travel by Google Maps, such as XaW Files: Beyond Humanity.

It all seemed a bit rushed to fit it into one episode, and I thought it would have been better if the entrepreneur had looked a goodie in one episode before being revealed as he really was in another.

Clearing Out My Negative Pseudo-Alphas

Over the last few years I’ve been clearing out my negative pseudo-alphas, with self-appointed friend group leaders following university heads of department, and ‘lifelong friends’. It’s harder to escape my current workplace ‘Saviles’, but I’m doing my best, and  I’ll be leaving in a few months.

This is about human personality/psychology, not geography, and my current workplace seems to have lots of potential for an Ian Watkins type too, a musician who groomed mothers to provide access to their children.

The power groomers try to focus on Savile the fitness fanatic charity worker, because that was a positive he used for his negativity. They also think the same about things like environmentalism and animal welfare. The positives such as charity Savile used, were tools of his power, like a cloak used for disguise.

Deceptive Men with Respectable Reputations

His problem was his power-hungry sadistic psychopathy. I’ve seen that same look and need in some of my workplace managers, the ICS heads of department when I was there, and some of my pseudo-alpha friend group leaders (often disguised as ‘wicked’ style pranks).

They have all been protected by their organisation and peer group, the same as those in the BBC were. In truth, in my experience, if all organisations sacked all those using power for immoral acts there wouldn’t be many left. I wasn’t surprised at all by the Trump recordings, and think it is the norm. The only thing distinct about it was that he was running for presidency.

I remember overhearing two women discussing a workmate who was a potential lover, and the interested woman said something like ‘All the boys/chaps like him’. She obviously thought that was a positive, and it could have been, but I was thinking it was probably a negative, and that he was a staunch member of the ‘what happens on tour stays on tour boys/chaps club’. That kind of attitude is expected in criminal gangs, and needed by intelligence and military people, but should it really be a part of the twenty-first century establishment and management culture? Not if you want a society with as little corruption and disarray as possible, and an end to monsters like Savile and Watkins and their everyday reflections.

Criticising Men

I’m not criticising men in relationships, or men who have lots of lovers, I’m criticising those men who use their power to seduce/groom women, especially the young and vulnerable, and especially if they’re also in a relationship. While they are probably nice in the grooming, from the boy talk I’ve heard, they are usually only doing it for a power trip, to ‘smash’ them in current terminology, and often use it to affirm their superiority ego, masculine, and then blame it on the women/girls for being ‘easy’, and all the negative names those women are called.

In reality, it is the men who have the ‘problem’ more than the women/girls. They have the need to act the way they do, using whatever means they have, despite whatever hurt they cause, to their prey, or those already in their lives that they profess to love. Women can act the same, or like men who act like that. Women seem to think that a cheating man must really like them, especially if he’s also cheating on his friends, but in reality he’s probably just like that (weak and lying), and will cheat on them just as much.

One of the reasons long-term relationships always seemed daunting to me was that I wanted to do it properly, and monogamously, whereas most men I’ve known haven’t had any intention of being faithful… not that they admitted in their boy talk anyway!

It’s more understandable for young men full of testosterone, but when it comes to middle-aged men, especially if also in a relationship, it just seems a sad power-trip.

Women at Fault

While I would like to just criticise men, and celebrate women, it’s not always men’s fault, and as society becomes more equal then the more women are negatively ‘acting like men’.

At this moment, scores of Yazidi women are probably being raped, with thousands still kept as sex slaves by I.S., but they are ignored by most of their fellow women; many women have even joined and supported the I.S. paedophile rapists. They excuse their behaviour by calling the Yazidis ‘devil worshippers’ because the Yazidis’ beliefs pre-date Islam.

As Al Murray’s pub landlord once funnily said, women were supposed to drag men out of the gutter, not join them in it!

There have always been the femme fatales and vamps anyway, and they are often as popular as the male ‘rogues’. I was reminded of it by Zsa Zsa Gabor’s recent passing, and her super hilarious quote that she was a great housekeeper; when she divorced her eight husbands she kept the house!

However, even though she seemed to have done well out of marriage she still told women not to marry men because they cheat. That seems a suitably fair greenYgrey way to end!

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Rio 2016 Analysis: Daphne Schippers Sheepers

When I saw Daphne Schippers dive over the line in the Rio 2016 women’s 200 metres I thought she had been inspired by Shaunae Miller (below). The second runner I’ve seen diving over the line since the 400 metres final. The photo below is of Miller winning the 400 metres, so is a positive one.

I thought that because unlike Miller, who won the 400 metres with her dive, there was nobody really close to Schippers in the 200 metres (below), won by Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson, who also won the 100 metres.

The only other reason I can think of for Schippers’s dive, other than emulating Miller, was that she thought somebody might be catching her from behind, and out of view.

Schippers White and the Seven Doubts
(wordplay with Snow White and the Seven Dwarves; later thinking I should make clear that it was wordplay created before realising there were seven other runners in the final. I’m not being derogatory to dwarves, or runners, just trying to show how sensitive writing has to be to be politically correct, as Ricky Gervais has done before, with this passage complementing the points below, which were written before this!).

Secondly, I thought I’d be okay blogging this, because of Schippers’s ethnicity.

Thirdly, I thought she’s a woman, so it might not be okay with women who don’t accept my feminism with a small f.

Fourthly, I thought she’s Dutch, so I might anger Dutch people, most of whom are probably already pretty upset today, after their heroine lost the race.

Fifthly, I thought people who only filter everything through sex and race, would think that if I’m not doing it for white over black race, with Schippers having lost the race making it unlikely, I must be doing it for something to do with sexuality.

Sixthly, I thought those obsessed with sexual interpretations for everything could either think I’m writing it because I’m attracted to her; or because she hasn’t asked me out.

Seventhly, I thought I might upset other white people, who might think I’ve succumbed to Multicultural Fascism in the U.K., and only feel comfortable criticising white British/European origins people: becoming sheepish myself.

Saved by Wordplay

The fact that I picked out Schippers’s dive and not the previous one would seem to support the last point, but I would argue that Schippers’s dive was a more obvious example of copying, as there was nobody close to her at the finishing line.

Moreover, Schippers’s name sounds like sheep(ers), which fits into what I am writing about.

I don’t think Schippers is any more sheepish than normal, and I have often copied other sports people when taking part in sports. I think it is normal for humans and other animals to copy each other – and is one of the signs of intelligence for animals – teaching is basically getting others to copy the teacher.

Sport not Sexuality

I don’t find Schippers that attractive at the moment either, as she’s too muscular. Some toning is quite nice, but I don’t like big muscles on women – just my tastes and choice, not telling anybody how to look. Schippers looks like she could be very attractive without the muscles, which she obviously needs for her running.

For some women, such as vegan Serena Williams, muscles are important to their performance, and they put their sport before their looks; although they might prefer their looks the way they are?

I don’t find sporting looks attractive overall, as those who are obsessed by sexual explanations for everything (Freudians?) might guess. I think Paula Radcliffe looks much nicer now in the studio, wearing casual evening clothes, than she did when running.

Paula Radcliffe and Jane Tomlinson being my biggest inspirations for my endurance running was all down to them being the most inspirational long distance runners at the time, and had nothing to do with their looks or sexuality.

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Mysterious Mind of Mine

Last night, out of nowhere, when watching television, I suddenly thought I’d used moral instead of morale in yesterday’s post. It’s the second time in a week that has happened. In Faster Running in a Month I wrote 2 x 3 km first; then, hours later, when I was returning home with the shopping, I suddenly thought I’d made that mistake. I don’t know if there are any other mistakes in the last week’s blog posts.

How the Writing Mind Works

I can’t prove that’s what happened, unless you’re watching me write this, when seeing me go straight into the blogs and correct the two mistakes cited above should convince you. It doesn’t make me out to be a great writer, or journalist; maybe many wouldn’t have made those mistakes at all; it’s just an aside about the way my mind works: the positives and the negatives, as I’ve been trying to write about since creating the greenYgrey.

I suppose it’s similar to people wondering if they locked the doors when leaving the house, or if they turned something off before leaving. I think usually those thoughts are thankfully wrong, but my two writing thoughts about errors this week have been 100% right.

As well as trying to understand myself; in the Nietzsche documentary recently discussed here, one of his greatest assets was said to be his self-knowledge; my main inspiration has been those in the 1960s counter-culture, such as Timothy Leary, who hoped to lead humanity to a better society, through understanding themselves, and controlling their negative traits. I don’t have much hope for humanity left though, but still persevere with my writing at the moment.

Maybe my disillusionment is because I have now aged beyond my own youthful wonder with the world, and look on it with tired old eyes. Maybe the world looks just as hopeful to the younger generation as it did to me in the 1980s, when it was also a very bleak time, with mass unemployment and social discord.

Exploring the Mind

I’ve tried to open my mind up to you as much as possible, from drawing a self-portrait of it at the end of my PhD, to detailing how I was thinking while writing XaW Files: Beyond Humanity. I think it should be a groundbreaking book in the understanding of the writer mind; my kind of writer mind anyway. Polite society seems to have other interests; such as marketing Russell Brand’s pathetic in-time-for-Christmas-sales-window-bookshelves Revolution! And they still wonder why we have the society we have!!

I’ve been writing these recent blog posts as stream of consciousness, with some inspiration or mental planning beforehand. I haven’t taken notes watching the documentaries and films, and have probably missed some great greenYgrey bits, only remembering the Y relevance of Ypres and Wipers Times at the end of writing yesterday’s blog.

That’s because of time: how much time I think these blogs should be, considering I have other work to do, and how much interest they seem to garner. Having said that, I have spent quite a lot of time on it; especially as I’d set out to tell you how I made Theresa May the new U.K. Prime Minister… in a real true connection way… but with some self-parody, as you’d hopefully now expect from the greenygrey!

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New Poem about Psychology of Love and Drug Desire

Hi, it’s Andy Wolfhol, creator extraordinaire at the Greenygrey. I’m delighted to announce that Marc Latham has just published the 120th poem of his next poetry collection: 242 Folding Mirror Poems and Reflections. It replaced a duplicate in the book, meaning there was one more to write, but Marc reports writing it today, so that should be all the poetry written. I’m very excited! Here’s the poem:

Sky in the sky (Photo credit: luvi)

Blue Skies, Delta Blues

EUPHORIA
DARLING GLORIA
SWEET MORNING GLORY
SUN IS SHINING
BIRDS IN THE AIR
SKY IS INVITING
WHAT GOES UP…

Try not to stray from the Striatum

must come down…
in a hole
thunder is over there
clouds of despair
dealt the blues
dragon looms
depression

Green Thinking about Identity

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In the above image, both squares and circles are really the same colours.

Hi, it’s Green.  I was catching up with Grey’s latest Werewolf of blogs, and read that it saw a television documentary called The Code, and that it made Grey wonder if green and grey are dominant colours in nature and the human mind.

We are still rebuilding communications with Oz, so cannot bring the blogs into the Greenygrey world at the current time.

Horizon: What is Colour, and How does it Influence?

No sooner had I read that, than I read an article by our ol’ buddy, Marc Latham, on Suite 101, about a Horizon documentary that had the latest research on how colour is created and how it influences us.

It theorises that colour is subjective and influenced by society and language. Colour can also influence our moods and behaviour.  I’m happy to say that green is usually considered good by the human mind, with red its negative opposite.

The programme is available until September 19th on the BBC website, but I don’t know if it’s available in your human world country.